Quotes about Willpower
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
- CS Lewis
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
- Samuel Rutherford
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
- Oswald Chambers
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
- Teresa of Avila
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.
- Muqtada al Sadr
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
- Johannes Tauler
Hunger is good discipline.
- Ernest Hemingway